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Columbus City Schools

History Helps When It Comes To Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 8th Standards
Get ready to move, shake, slip, and slide with a well-rounded plate tectonics unit! The engaging resource includes everything you need to inspire eighth grade science scholars, from worksheets to demonstrations. Assess their...
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Facing History and Ourselves

The Nazis in Power: Propaganda and Conformity

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Nazis used the power of propaganda to encourage confirmative views and the discrimination of Jews. A social studies resource illustrates these issues through discussion, image analysis, and a writing exercise.
Handout
National Institute of Open Schooling

Atomic Structure

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Learners explain historical findings such as Rutherford and Bohr's contributions, explain wave particle duality, and formulate Heinsenberg's uncertainty principle. They also draw s, p, and d orbitals, explain more historical findings,...
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Science Matters

Energy Transfer and Transformation

For Teachers 6th Standards
When you take a simple task and create an exceptionally difficult way to complete it, it is known as a Rube Goldberg machine. These machines are filled with many types of energy transfers and energy transformations. Here, pupils...
Handout
National Institute of Open Schooling

Spontaneity of Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Do spontaneous reactions really occur? Activity 12 in a series of 36 focuses on spontaneity of chemical reactions. Learners read about, discuss, and answer questions pertaining to entropy, explain the third law of thermodynamics, explore...
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HIV Protease Inhibitors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do doctors fight a virus that's constantly mutating? Show science scholars how we fight HIV using one of its own most fundamental processes through a thoughtful demonstration. The lesson focuses on how protease inhibitors prevent HIV...
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Curated OER

The Great China Chase: Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Stories are created, by students, using a variety of adjectives. 3-5th graders will learn about adjectives and use their new knowledge to create ad-lib stories to share with the class demonstrating their mastery of adjectives, indefinite...
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Curated OER

Use of Hypercard to Create an Interactive Tutorial on Inheritance Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use this interactive tutorial program to directly observe a variety of inheritance patterns. They develop mastery over the variety of genetics problems presented. This simulation is designed to promote the acquisition of skill...
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Curated OER

"Our Class Hatches the Egg"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners research all about the process of egg development and hatching. They access about temperature, recording data, and charting. In addition to the outcomes for science mastery, students gain experience in cooperative group work,...
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Curated OER

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students play a math game which assesses their mastery of selecting the appropriate operation to solve specific problems.
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Curated OER

Sentence Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore and study what they already know about grammar and sentence structure to reinforce their mastery of assessing the eight parts of speech. They match a set of colored word cards with their correct part of speech and create...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Demystifying Mood in Creative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how writing is affected by mood and emotions. They learn proper mood descriptors and read sample pieces of writing to better explain mood.
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Curated OER

The Animal Kingdom of Vertebrates

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders classify fish according to their characteristics. In this classification lesson students learn how to group animals including birds, reptiles and amphibians.
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Curated OER

Problem Posing Mathematics

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students work on multiplication problems. In this hands-on math lesson, students practice the concept of multiplication through manipulatives, arrays, pictures, and drawings. They discover other ways of learning multiplication besides...
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Curated OER

Easy Steps for Summarization

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice techniques and strategies to assess mastery on the concept of summarization. They read, discuss and summarize the story, "How Goose Got Ready for Winter," by David Wingfield. Each student picks out the most important...
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Curated OER

Send in the Clouds

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils culminate a study of the water cycle by following step-by-step directions to make a three dimensional cloud. On the model, they draw a diagram of the water cycle and label it, and add a written report they completed in a previous...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 4th - 5th
In these vocabulary building worksheets, students learn the vocabulary words by completing the four pages of activities that include definition clues, word scrambles, sentence writing, and timed readings.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these vocabulary building worksheets, learners complete several activities to help them learn how to spell and use the words mail, gain, contains, fair, daily, airline, and maintain.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Main Events in Fiction

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students complete a literature analysis of fiction texts to study elements of fiction. In this fiction analysis lesson, students read various fiction texts and examine them to learn about fiction elements. Students learn to draw...
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Curated OER

Mystery Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study graphs and learn how to display information into a graph. In this graph lesson plan, students construct a graph of their own sorted data, and pick out things in graphs that are inconsistent.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pie Charts

For Teachers 3rd
The teacher conducts a survey of each student's favorite color. The teacher then creates a pie chart identifying the information gathered. The students display mastery by creating their own pie chart displaying the same information.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Numbers System Conversions

For Students 7th - 10th
In this number system conversions worksheet, students explore, analyze and develop mastery skills in converting between alternative number systems.
Organizer
Curated OER

I Can Tell Time

For Students 3rd
In this clock worksheet, students practice telling time. Students create a clock with an hour hand and a minute hand for mastery of telling the time.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Irregular Word Fluency, Line it Up

For Teachers 1st
First graders use teacher created irregular word cards to build fluency through a game.  In this irregular word cards lesson, 1st graders reply to the teacher when their assigned word card is called. Students mastery or need is...

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